Occupancy-Based Energy Management in Buildings: Final Report to Sponsors

Sohn, Michael D. ; Black, Douglas R. ; Price, Phillip N. ; Lin, Yiqing ; Brahme, Rohini ; Surana, Amit ; Narayanan, Satish ; Cerpa, Alberto ; Ericson, Varick ; Kamthe, Ankur

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

关键词: Energy Consumption;    32;    Occupants;    Energy Management;    Commercial Buildings;   

DOI  :  10.2172/985736
RP-ID  :  LBNL-3693E
RP-ID  :  DE-AC02-05CH11231
RP-ID  :  985736

美国|英语

来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), the University of California Merced (UCM), and the United Technologies Research Center (UTRC) conducted field studies and modeling analyses in the Classroom and Office Building (COB) and the Science and Engineering Building (S&E) at the University of California, Merced. In the first year, of a planned multiyear project, our goal was to study the feasibility and efficacy of occupancy-based energy management. The first-year research goals were twofold. The first was to explore the likely energy savings if we know the number and location of building occupants in a typical commercial building. The second was to model and estimate people movement in a building. Our findings suggest that a 10-14percent reduction in HVAC energy consumption is possible over typical HVAC operating conditions when we know occupancy throughout the building. With the conclusion of the first-year tasks, we plan to review these results further before this group pursues follow-on funding.